Thank you very much.
It's my position that over the course of the commission, there's been quite a bit of historical revisionism in some of the testimony that's been provided. There has been some contradictory testimony provided at certain committee meetings here by our law enforcement agencies that have been involved, and the changing nature of the threat. This committee's mandate is to determine whether or not the threshold of a national security was in order, and at this point, I'm still unclear about that.
However, what I am clear about, regardless of the legal nature of the invocation of the act, is that there was a practical collapse of policing within the city of Ottawa. The Ottawa Police Service was wholly incapable and inadequate to meet the size and scale of the operation that was presented here.
Councillor Fleury, given that you have had primary contact with your residents about the impact and the nature.... Being a representative of the ward most impacted by it, I want to give you the opportunity to explain if your experience of the protest, and the information that you received from residents, was consistent with the OPS's communications about the convoy and, in particular, with reference to some of these reports that were perhaps framed by Rex Murphy, and some other ludicrous things.
Could you comment about whether, in your experience, it was just some girls and boys rolling into town to have a talk with the Prime Minister.